If you had just made the effort to skim through that post before you called it spam,you would had found out that it says "The only thing required is opening an account at ActiveState to register your copy".So you didn't even make the effort,but at the same time you figured that you had enough information to name it spam...
it wasn't meant in that to treat her in a 'special way', but that being the PR manager of O'Reilly for the whole of UK proves that she is NOT a spammer and that she should not be treated as one
but in the very beginning it states "Here we host an overall summary of the highlights of the interview ranging over topics as diverse as the future of C#, asynchronous v parallel, Visual Basic and more (the link to the full interview on i-programmer can be found at the end of this page)". How can this be considered spam ????????????? I think that the notion was to read the highlights and if you find it interesting and want to see more then follow the link to the whole interview